1st Post - Low poly ninja

niuarts

I decided to try to make a very low poly model. This is my first post on this forum, it is already rigged, but I didn't make any animations yet. I used blender for the modeling and uvs and photoshop for the texture (only diffuse). Hope you all enjoy.


Viewport Screenshot:

DrunkShaman

Hands are too big, and shoulders seem to be dislocated. =\

Hatsya

mind showing the wires, and the texture size too? and his side view too. Oh, his hand is enough to crush its own head due to size.

niuarts

Well, I see what u r talking about on the shoulders, it is rigged so I made this 2nd screen shot with a bone ajustment.. And here I have also the wire and texture.. The real size of the texture is 1024.
Thanks 4 the tips.

biofrost

Everything you are doing texture wise could be done with a 512x512 texture. You also have a lot of wasted uv space.

Alberto Rdrgz

redo that unwrap and use up a lot MORE space.

gilesruscoe

with moving ur unwrap around and scaling down less detailed parts, you can easily use half the space with your current islands


However, i suggest tweaking the shapes of these to fit the UV space better (squarer)
For the kind of detail your using i'd say you could get almost the same results from a 256x256, 1024 is definately way to much.

also you have ALOT of sides on the legs and feet which arnt doing much to the shape of the character. I'd say you could have 5 sided legs and still keep the silhouette the same.

niuarts

Humm thanks man, as I'm new to uvs I made that organization to understand what I was painting, but you are right, this can be done with a 256x256 texture. I'll try to improve my model and re organize the uvs.. Thanks 4 the tips... I'm also thinking in exporting the character to 3ds max, but I'm not sure how to unwrap uvs in max, anybody can give a tip, like a tutorial or something?

gilesruscoe

Why are you exporting it to Max if you dont know how to unwrap in it? Surely its better to keep it in your current package until its unwrapped? (im assuming your exporting to max for animation)

niuarts

Well, I know a little of 3dsMax and Blender, but I always ask myself if I'm doing some specific tasks correctly, that's why I use to start in one software and continues with the other. In my little experience, unwrapping in blender is so much easier than in max, but I think that is because I don't know how to do it in the right way. Anyway, I'll try to fix the issues pointed.

niuarts

Updating... Thanks for the tips, I reduced the hand a little bit, fixed the shoulders, got rid of some loops and re-sized the texture to 512. Trying to improve..

niuarts

Oh I also increased the length of the legs.

Alberto Rdrgz

Looks a bit better but you need some anatomy work.

niuarts

sorry but I disagree, it a cartoon character, I want it to have a different look.

biofrost

Even cartoon characters follow basic anatomy, while some may be exaggerated it still follows how the human body should look.

Joopson

And say "ok fine, it's a cartoon character", but even so, the proportions don't look good. The reason for altering proportions in a cartoon is to exaggerate the main characteristics of the character- the proportions right now are falling short of that. Either exaggerate the proportions far more, or make them correct.

As they say, make it bold- or people will assume it is an error.

Take this for instance:

Alberto Rdrgz

play with proportions. learn about the basic human anatomy and exaggerate like biofrost mentioned and emphasize parts of the character and create nice and interesting silhouette.

danr

unless the hands are going to be different (eg tattoo or glove on one of them) you don't need different UVs for each. Not good when you're mirroring and squidging the rest, including crucial bits like the front/face and back.

Rick_D

why are his little toes bigger than his big toes?